Hundreds of duplicates

AshZM

I'm sorry that I don't have a better answer to give at the moment, I've let the team know that the current duplicate remover doesn't work for your needs.

I'm glad that you were able to find a workaround for now, when you're done reviewing your items, and you confirm that you can see all of your items in a correct state in 1Password, then I recommend deleting those Excel exports so that the only copy of your items is in 1Password itself.

-Dave

ref: PB-38767591

That would take 100 years! Luckily, when I imported Vaults (I had some all over my Mac with varying numbers of items), I exported them to Excel and compared them all. A bit more helpful (yes, I put pwds on Excel docs). Still, it would be so helpful to compare your own vaults.

AshZM

You're correct that Watchtower will only show duplicates from the same vault. This is done partially because sometimes a user may have different permissions for different vaults that would make it impossible to use the tool to remove duplicates in vaults where a user doesn't have the ability to delete/edit items.

If Watchtower isn't detecting certain items as duplicates (if they're in different vaults for example), then you'll need to review the duplicates individually. Here is what the process can look like:

1. Treat your Personal/Private vault as the "source of truth".
2. Go through all of the items in the other vaults one-by-one comparing them to the equivalent item in the Personal/Private vault. Edit and update the item in the Personal/Private vault so that it contains the latest information and everything that you need to keep.
3. Once you're sure that the item in the imported vault is complete and accurate, delete the item in the other vault.
4. When the other vaults are emptied, and you don't need anything from those vault's archives, you can delete the other vaults.

I know that this isn't the most elegant process but hopefully you only have to do it once and then you'll have a complete and correct set of your items going forward. Once you have a correct set of your items in the Personal/Private vault you can organize them into different vaults again if you wish: Move or copy items

-Dave

Watch Tower ONLY looks for duplicates within ONE vault. I have many vaults from syncing errors over the (however many years since version 1). I exported them all to Excel, but it's not ideal. Seems like some vaults have a different number of fields. Plus, the CVS version doesn't export all fields.

@soundog

I'm happy that you're finding the new feature useful. 🙂

-Dave

Finally!! Thanks. It works.

Thanks for bumping the thread. 🙂

As of the last update, 8.10.18, you can now see a list of your duplicate items in 1Password 8. Choose “Items with duplicates” in your Watchtower dashboard to see or delete all of your duplicates:

Make sure that you're running the latest version to see the feature. As always, please let us know if you find the tool useful and if you have any suggestions for the team. 🙂

-Dave

Hi-

Same issue, but I didn’t uninstall prior version and have both running on my computer making an even bigger mess. I didn’t want to uninstall the old version bc there were so many dupes in new version (I upgraded to 7 and have ignored it ever since due to this issue!).

1Pass 7 has watchtower which supposedly will remove dupes. I haven’t done it yet because I can’t find the rules under which it operates to identity dupes- does it identify the oldest one and only delete that/those (I have about 5 per login :-/) ?

I haven’t even considered 1Pass 8 given issues with 1Pass 7, but if you have removed even watchtower’s ability to detect dupes I won’t upgrade yet; a very strange choice for an app that creates dupes no?

Hi @Steveo007,

Thanks for following up about this. I'm afraid I don't have any additional updates to share at the moment, but if you're seeing duplicate items in 1Password now, feel free to connect with us via email so we can investigate and suggest appropriate workarounds: support@1Password.com

If you'd like to keep an eye on future updates, you can also check the 1Password Release Notes

Let me know if you have any questions. 🙂

Still hoping for a solution regarding duplicates - is there one coming in an update soon please ? Many thanks